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...college sports fans—we were, once upon a time, relegated to buying tickets to games in order to directly experience the protagonists of our favorite sporting events. In conjunction with this development arose the popularity of radio, then television, and cable television, and ESPN, and satellites, and NFL Sunday Ticket, and most recently, packages like MLB.com’s MLB.TV. Amazing, right...
Though he said he personally enjoys watching Ivy League football—he attended Princeton’s overtime victory over Columbia this past weekend—St. John acknowledged the Ivies’ somewhat diminished scale compared to Division I-A and the NFL...
...headlines weren’t filled with wins and losses or times and records, rather they were dominated by Victor Conte, Balco and the biggest athletic drug scandal in US history. Conte claimed that 27 athletes, including 15 track and field superstars, a champion boxer and swimmer and several NFL and MLB players, had received illegal athletic aids from San Francisco Bay area supplement maker Balco Laboratories. The mistakes of those few athletes, however, cast a shadow of suspicion over athletic competition that grayed the lines of success in every sport—particularly in track and field...
...pound center who brought his gorgeous blond boyfriend to every team social event. There was a former Iowan schoolboy football star whose penchant for career ending hits was equaled only by his pathological desire for sex (which he sought from the lovely ladies of certain Glasgow neighborhoods), an NFL Europe veteran who’d played for the Chicago bears, a British sprinting champion and the best quarterback in Britain, whose 22-stone (308 pound) frame could not mask his awesome physical talent and acumen for the game...
...played the QB inmate in the original. "A quarterback walk is like a cop walk, where you stride up there, and before you even tell the guy to roll the window down, he knows he's in deep trouble." With a cast including comic CHRIS ROCK and former NFL players Michael Irvin and Brian Bosworth, rookie Sandler is apt to take some hits in the game scenes. "I did all that stuff, and I pay for it every morning when I get out of bed and everything hurts," says Reynolds. Ah, but it was a sacrifice...